patient safety PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students

We have 13 patient safety PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students

Exploring patient safety incident investigation capability and capacity in healthcare.

University of Leicester Department of Population Health Sciences

Project Description. Background. Patient safety incidents are often caused by multi-faceted factors originating across the whole ecology of healthcare and are intrinsic to its properties as a complex adaptive system. Read more

Supervisor: Dr F Peerally

8 January 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Improving reliability of medical processes using modelling and technology - (ENG 1711)

University of Nottingham Faculty of Engineering

Aim. To investigate how deviations in healthcare service can be reduced using patient-centred simulation models and computer vision techniques. Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Remenyte-Prescott

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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How can we reduce Serious Adverse Incidents in Clinical Practice using Aviation Safety Frameworks? An Action Research Project

Ulster University - Belfast Campus Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

Research Group: Nursing and Health

Background. A Serious Adverse Incident (SAI) is a term defined as any event or circumstance that either resulted in or had the potential to lead to unintended or unforeseen harm, loss, or damage (Department of Health, 2023). Read more

Supervisor: Prof N Cook

5 February 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Biomedicine: Fully Funded Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and Swansea Welsh Medium PhD Scholarship: The impact of language on eye health in optical practices in Wales

Swansea University Swansea University Medical School

Funding providers: Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and Swansea University. Subject areas: Health care (Optometry) . Project start date: 1 October 2024 (Enrolment open from mid-September). Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Morgan

Open Day(s) 13 December 2023 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Precision assessment of human spatial memory: application to early detection of Alzheimer’s Disease

University of York MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership

Dementia presents a worldwide healthcare emergency, with 55 million people already affected around the world. The main risk factor is age, meaning that the global burden of disease is projected to rise throughout the 21st century as populations grow older. . Read more

Supervisors: Dr T Hartley, Prof S Slight, Dr R McArdle

17 December 2023 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Towards digital evaluation of patient-specific wrist repair

University of Leeds Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Research Group: School of Mechanical Engineering

A funded PhD is available to develop patient-specific evaluation of custom wrist repairs, in collaboration with industry partner Attenborough Medical. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Mengoni, Dr S Williams

Open Day(s) 31 January 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Controlled Synthesis of Virtual Patient Populations with Multimodal Representation Learning

The University of Manchester Department of Computer Science

This project invites PhD candidates who are interested in developing generative models that can deal with complex multimodal patient data, contributing to safer, better and faster innovations of medical products via in-silico trials. Read more

Supervisors: Dr T Mu, Prof AF Frangi

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Clinical-Engineering Post-Market Surveillance of Growing Spine Rods

University College London Division of Surgery & Interventional Science

Project Title: Clinical-Engineering Post-Market Surveillance of Growing Spine Rods. Degree Level: PhD (note all UCL students first register as MPhil students). Read more

Supervisors: Prof A Hart, Dr H Hothi

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

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MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Developing novel gene therapy approaches to inhibit the unconventional translation of neurotoxic dipeptide-repeat proteins in pre-clinical models of C9ORF72-ALS/FTD

University of Sheffield MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership

Background. Hexanucleotide repeat expansions in C9orf72 are the most common causes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a spectrum of fatal neurodegenerative diseases leading to progressive paralysis and altered personality features respectively. Read more

Supervisors: Prof G Hautbergue, Prof M Azzouz

17 December 2023 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Improving adverse event reporting in rehabilitation trials for people with Multiple Sclerosis

University of Plymouth Faculty of Health: Medicine, Dentistry & Human Sciences

Background. It is essential to assess harms as well as benefits of investigational treatments to provide a robust evidence base. This is underlined by recent updated CONSORT guidelines for the reporting of harms [1]. Read more

Supervisor: Prof JF Freeman

15 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Designs for sequences of early phase (modular) studies

University of Cambridge MRC Biostatistics Unit

Background to the project. An emerging setting is to conduct a trial of an experimental drug as monotherapy, then in combination(s) with previously studied agents, and then to proceed into expansion cohorts (called modular trials). Read more

Supervisor: Dr PM Mozgunov

15 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Use of artifical intelligence methods in the conduct and analysis of trials

Newcastle University Population Health Sciences Institute

Background to the project. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been used in a wide range of fields including in clinical research. AI makes it possible to automate many tasks and analyse large quantities of information which would otherwise be impossible for researchers to handle. Read more

Supervisor: Dr JLK Lozano-Kuehne

15 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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How should the environmental impact of a pharmaceutical intervention be considered in the context of trial outcomes

Bangor University School of Medical and Health Sciences

Background. Non-inferiority trials are designed to show that a new treatment is “not worse than” an active control by more than a pre-specified margin. Read more

Supervisor: Dr CP Plumpton

15 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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We have 13 patient safety PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students

patient safety PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students

We have 13 patient safety PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students

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